Path of Blood by Diana Pharaoh Francis

3/28/2007 8:29:39 AM

Quote :

"If I don't finish Pale Fire this week, Stillfuchsia's gonna whoop my ass, so I guess I'll do that."

you'd best get readin, son

3/28/2007 10:01:23 AM

chandra's secrets (allan stratton) -- i'm just finishing it now. it's really enthralling; i read it in 2 sittings even though i didn't have time to. it's about a teenage girl coping with rape, hiv/aids, etc in sub-saharan africa.

my friend's reading the infidel and says that's a keeper , too.

3/28/2007 10:43:33 AM

3/28/2007 11:14:04 AM

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Maguire
Orlando: A Biography, Woolf

4/2/2007 4:09:40 PM

Just finished reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Didn't see the ending coming...

4/2/2007 7:33:37 PM

god, wicked was the single most worst book i've ever had the displeasure of reading. i got 40 pages from the end and couldnt even finish. pure shit.
(the broadway was amazing though)

naked david sedaris

4/2/2007 8:44:04 PM

^you are on to something with david sedaris

but please tell me you didn't say wicked was "the single most worse book...ever"?

i'll admit it didn't live up to some of my expectations after seeing the musical, but i guess that is because i was hoping idina menzel or kristen chenoweth would somehow magically appear in the book version.

4/3/2007 3:10:51 AM

amy sedaris >> david sedaris

and david sedaris is fucking great

4/3/2007 10:41:07 AM

yes, amy is hilarious. they need to team up and write one...if they have and i'm not aware, let me know!!
i read wicked before i saw the play, and it still sucked. blech

4/3/2007 12:00:42 PM

The Dark Tower Part IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King

Really good series so far, totally unlike his other work (if you aren't a fan... or even if you are I suppose).

4/3/2007 1:24:04 PM

Finished Heller's Picture This yesterday. Excellent.

Moving on to another Heller novel, Something Happened.

Quote :

"but please tell me you didn't say wicked was "the single most worse book...ever"? i'll admit it didn't live up to some of my expectations after seeing the musical, but i guess that is because i was hoping idina menzel or kristen chenoweth would somehow magically appear in the book version."

I thought Wicked was pretty interesting...haven't seen the musical, though. I liked Mirror Mirror a bit more--tying the Borgias into the story was a unique twist.

[Edited on April 13, 2007 at 11:56 PM. Reason : ]

4/13/2007 11:52:12 PM

Just finished. Very good, quick read. It is written from the point of view of someone with Asperger syndrome, and a very interesting perspective on how someone with that might think.

5/3/2007 6:14:53 PM

I just finished Worse than Watergate by Dean regarding the secrecy of the Bush Administration. It was pretty good and informative.

5/3/2007 6:37:28 PM

extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer

5/3/2007 6:40:56 PM

^How is that?

I really liked Everything is Illuminated.

5/3/2007 6:44:48 PM

It's really good. Sad, but good.

5/3/2007 6:45:23 PM

World War Z - Max Brooks

5/3/2007 6:53:39 PM

^^^what ^^ said

5/3/2007 6:54:07 PM

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

And I just finished Wicked.

[Edited on May 3, 2007 at 7:02 PM. Reason : sdf]

5/3/2007 7:02:04 PM

Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

5/3/2007 7:11:45 PM

Quote :

"The Dark Tower Part IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King"

One of my favorites. The whole series, actually, but of the individual books that one was the clear winner IMO.

Me, I'm reading The Great Bridge by David McCullough. 3rd book of his I've read--the man is a fantastic author. Has that gift for making history very readable, almost novelesque at times, without sacrificing historical accuracy.

5/3/2007 7:46:40 PM

just checked out The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. i loved snow crash, and Jere recommended this one.

5/3/2007 8:07:20 PM

dune

5/3/2007 9:01:37 PM

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

5/3/2007 10:52:24 PM

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

5/3/2007 10:56:08 PM

^that book is either really shitty or brilliant.

5/3/2007 11:18:52 PM

Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire is on the way, should be here tomorrow.

Gonna see what all the fuss is about.

5/4/2007 1:39:48 AM

5/4/2007 1:51:02 AM

been doing some light reading lately, mostly clive cussler

also been reading up on scripting

5/4/2007 2:57:43 PM

less than zero - brett easton ellis

5/4/2007 3:06:52 PM

Finished it a few weeks ago. I LOVED it. The story definitely doesn't end up where you'd expect it to.

Next I'm working on reading Mattimeo again, just to bring me back to Middle School.

5/4/2007 3:35:41 PM

I finally have enough time to dig in to Against the Day

5/9/2007 9:39:02 PM

House of Leaves is awesome so far

5/9/2007 10:01:58 PM

finished this the other day...



now reading this...

5/9/2007 10:09:46 PM

Finished The Great Bridge, very impressed overall. Now for a complete change of gears, reading:




[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 11:18 PM. Reason : fail]

5/9/2007 11:16:35 PM

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

5/9/2007 11:26:55 PM

5/10/2007 1:25:08 AM

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Just because I'm so far behind the times and haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

5/10/2007 1:32:26 AM

Slaughterhouse Five oh look a bird man I like chocolate did I mention dresden? wow wee so it goes then something else happened OH SNAP so it goes well then there are some more words short chapter.






So it goes.






(but I am enjoying it )

5/10/2007 1:32:50 AM

Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins

5/10/2007 8:19:05 AM

just started A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)

5/10/2007 11:21:57 AM

5/10/2007 1:55:26 PM

Lynch on Lynch

5/10/2007 1:56:38 PM

HP1

5/10/2007 2:24:22 PM

5/12/2007 3:06:25 PM

A Canticle for Liebowitz

The Past Through Tomorrow

5/12/2007 3:34:17 PM

^^ I just picked that up, too

Is it any good?

5/12/2007 7:04:54 PM

order of the pheonix, again

5/12/2007 7:41:42 PM

Biography of Bill Monroe... "Cant you hear me callin'"

incredible so far...

5/12/2007 8:07:32 PM